We are always to give thanks to the Lord. This is a response to what He has done and for who He is. He is good and His love endures forever. There are times when we think that God does not love us, and in the Psalms (as elsewhere in the Bible) there are many instances of this. The reason for this often that we have a very shallow view of what love is. God knows what is really good for us, what our deepest needs really are. Moreover, He sees the impact of our lives on others, so He has a much wider perspective than we have. We will still go through times when we find it difficult to see how God loves us, but in those times we should pursue God, knowing that He does love us, and in the end we will understand what He is doing.
Then we are to tell others. We are to tell our story. Being saved is not just a matter of four spiritual laws, or any other formulaic confession. There is nothing wrong with these, and as long as we don't make idols out of them they can be very helpful. But if we look at people Jesus encountered as reported in the gospels, none of them gave a "classic confession". They were all different. Jesus has encountered you, and you have encountered Him, in a unique way. So we are to tell our story, for our story will have something special about Jesus to reveal to others. These stories will be stories of how Jesus rescued us from being lost.
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